Review
“The inspiring practices backed by science in The Self-Compassion Daily Journal unlock a new level of acceptance, fulfillment, and performance. The eight-week journey of building compassion as a skill is a must-have toolbox in daily life! Hill’s daily practices help create space to take the full breath you didn’t know you needed. Her impactful writing and clarifying questions are inspiring, and make the experience unique and fun.”
—Sonya Looney, MS, NBC-HWC, world-champion professional mountain biker, and host of The Sonya Looney Show podcast
“In The Self-Compassion Daily Journal, skilled psychologist and meditation teacher Diana Hill offers you a warm, wise, and effective real-world path through life’s difficulties. You will learn to listen to and respond to yourself with kindness, identify what an enriching life means to you, and through these powerful practices gain the courage to extend your compassionate heart to others.”
—Trudy Goodman, PhD, and Jack Kornfield, PhD, founders InsightLA and Spirit Rock Meditation Center
“Diana Hill is back with more support for growing a deep, satisfying, stress-defusing life. Her new workbook is a ‘kind hand on our backs’ as each of us navigate the unrelenting pressure of self-criticism. Activities include befriending ourselves, establishing a soothing breathing practice, unsticking our cycle of oppressive thoughts, and working with hopelessness using our creativity. Hill’s work is grounded in reality and offers practical help, even while exploring the latest research-backed theories in the field of self-compassion.”
—Julie Bogart, creator of the Brave Writer program, and author of Raising Critical Thinkers and The Brave Learner
“Diana Hill offers a rare combination of therapeutic insight and friendly support, grounded in both scientific research and contemplative wisdom. Wow. This is a gem of a book that will help anyone live with greater confidence, courage, and inner peace.”
—Rick Hanson, PhD, author of Resilient
“How can we harness the power of self-compassion to work with our inner critic and nurture the courage, wisdom, and commitment we need to address suffering and cultivate a caring, aware, open, and purposeful life well lived? The Self-Compassion Daily Journal is an excellent, elegant, and powerful guide that helps readers do exactly that, inviting them to water the seeds of compassion and psychological flexibility daily.”
—Marcela Matos, PhD, auxiliary researcher and professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal
“Cultivating self-compassion requires practice, and that works best with a structure and a guide. Diana Hill has provided you just such a step-by-step approach to maintaining your self-compassion practice with The Self-Compassion Daily Journal. Beyond that, she is a wise and caring guide who can help you to go farther than you might expect in your journey into mindfulness and compassion. I’m recommending this book to my clients and students, and to you!”
—Dennis Tirch, founding director of The Center for Compassion Focused Therapy, and author of The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Overcoming Anxiety
“Diana Hill is brilliant at making important ideas accessible to us all. In small, bite-size units, this gentle and wise book will help you create habits of compassion that will touch and lift up every corner of your life. Structured as an eight-week journey into what your heart yearns for, it never overwhelms, it never talks down, and never lets you flounder. It takes you by the hand, treats you as an equal, and shows you how to master skills that matter. An awesome piece of work.”
—Steven C. Hayes, PhD, professor of psychology emeritus at the University of Nevada, Reno; and originator of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
About the Author
Diana Hill, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, international trainer, and sought-after speaker on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and compassion. Host of the podcast, Your Life in Process—and coauthor, with Debbie Sorenson, of ACT Daily Journal—Diana works with organizations, high-achievers, and health professionals who are committed to becoming psychologically flexible so they can transform their mental health at work, home, and around the globe. Diana practices what she preaches in her daily life as a mom of two boys, bee guardian, and yoga practitioner in Santa Barbara, CA.
Joseph V. Ciarrochi, PhD, is a professor at the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education at Australian Catholic University. He has published more than 160 scientific journal articles and many books, including the widely acclaimed Emotional Intelligence in Everyday Life and The Weight Escape.
